Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-09-30
WONDERFUL RICHES.
Roanoke Times. I

Roanoke Times
The rich and wonderful develop
ments reported yesterday in th'
Floyd county gold mine caused thu
Times reporter to call at once OF
DIR. Il. w. CrOzier, one of the gen
tIemen particularly interested, Il
ascertain if what he had heard wal
correct. He found the doctor bust
ly engaged in writing, but in an
swer to his inquiries that gentle
man handed him a statement o
essays OF several samples from The
mine by Mr.. John Jacobs, superin
tendent of the Yadkin Mine Work,
at Salisbury, n. g., OF which the
following synopsis is made:
Sample No. l showed 21G.7S.10C
ounces OF gold to the ton, which
valulng the gold at S20.67 pei
ounce, amounted to S4,479.Si. The
ore also contained 1870. 4G.100 ounces
Of silver to the ton, which valulng
the silver at ~ per ounce, amount
ed to Sl30.IG, thus showing the
combined value Of the precious met.
ais to be Sl,Gl030 to the ton.
Sample No. . contained gold in
the proportion Of 1927 to the ton,
and silver in the proportion Of ~
cents, amounting to 1897 to the ton.
Sample No. 3 contained gold and
silver IN the proportion Of $3.50 to
the ton, and sample No. ! the same
precious metals in the proportion
Of SAB to the ton.
1t will thus be seen that in point
Of value there is no comparison be
tween the first sample and the three
others. Mr. Jacobs stated in his
letter that sample No. was very
small, but the gold and silver con
tanned in it was cause for cOngrat
ulatiOn to the owners OF the mine.
DR.. CrOzier was not able to &C.
count for the difference in value
between the samples, but was con
fdent that there we're large quaint
ties of the same kind of ore as sam.
pie No. in the mine. The report.
er congratulated him on his good
luck and mentally concluded if the
first specimen had not been taken
from a pocket that the owners OF
the mine were indeed IN possession
of a bonanza.
The mines are eight miles from
Floyd Courthouse and twelve miles
from Christiansburg. The atten.
ton of gentlemen in this city was
first called to the mine by Mr.. G.
A. Van Fleet, who was induced to
prospect in that section while on
his way from Colorado to North
Carolina, by a conversation he had
with a man who lived somewhere
in the Brush Creek district. Mr.
Van Fleet had been engaged IL
mining for some years in Colorado,
and was so favorably impressed
with what he discovered in Floyd
county that he came to this city
and LAID the result of his investiga-
tons before DR.. CrOzier, and in a
short time that gentleman, DR.. A.
u. Koner, and DR.. G. S. Cooper had
entered into a cO-partnership and
purchased an option on several
hundred acres in that section OF
Messrs. r. w. Spindle and Peter
Shelton. Mr.. Van Fleet was ad.
mitted into cO-partnersbip, and,
with four assistants, started out IN
quest of gold. He sunk a shaft
fifty feet OH the land of Mr.. Shell
ton, and cross cut through five
veins of ore for forty feet in ives.
terly direction. Samples of ore
were brought to DIR. CrOzier some
weeks ago, and we're sent by him to
Salisbury, with the result above
mentioned. The Doctor says ore is
there in large quantities, and is
easily mined. The company will
probably put up quartz mill at
the mine, and begin operations on
a more extensive scale very soon.
They have good showings Of gold
in other places near the mine.